All the News That's Fit to Scan: Increasing Access to Historic Newspapers
Wednesday, December 5, 2001  
9 a.m. - 1 p.m. (Continental breakfast begins at 8 a.m.)
Hilton National London Olympia Hotel
Kensington High Street, London W14

Over the last year there has been much public debate about the fate of
historic newspapers.  This workshop will describe and demonstrate how Olive
Software's ActivePaper Archive(tm) was used to process and create an XML
repository of digital files of nearly 500,000 articles and other items that
had been scanned from British Library Newspaper Library microfilm by OCLC
Preservation Resources.  The resulting search capabilities open up
extraordinary and affordable solutions to the problems of preserving and
increasing access to historic newspaper content for libraries, archives and
scholars.  Speakers will include Marilyn Deegan, Refugee Studies Centre,
University of Oxford; Ed King, British Library Newspaper Project; Robert
Harriman, Library of Congress; and representatives from Olive Software.

The workshop is being presented in conjunction with the Online Information
conference, but you are welcome to attend the workshop if you are not
planning to attend the conference.  The workshop is supported in part by the
Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC).

Please register to attend this event.
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